Re: [BUGS] pg_regress fails at "point" test

On 30 Jul 2001 Tom Lane wrote:

pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org writes:

gcc2.95; hppa2.0-hp-hpux10.20, postgresql 7.1.2
make check checks the first group all right (tests check out ok and
a process "postgres:" shows up in the process list.
When "make check" displays "parallel group (18 tests): point lseg"
the "postgres:" process disappears from the process list and
the test does not complete. Or, rather, not until I lose
patience (15min). Incidentally the shell process that make started
keeps running and eats up all the CPU time.

Known bug in HPUX's Bourne shell --- evidently it can't cope with so
many children in parallel. It works if you do

gmake SHELL=/bin/ksh check

or if you run the non-parallel "installcheck". See FAQ_HPUX.

If I still had a support contract in force with HP, I'd file a bug
report...

I reduced the pg_regress script to a test case and submitted a CR:

JAGad84609 /usr/bin/sh hang on PostgreSQL regression test

The defect is filed against HP-UX 11i, but I noted that the defect is
present on 11.00 and 10.20 as well.

Regards,

Giles